Domesday land measures in Suffolk

Domesday Book for Suffolk and Norfolk is unique in including, for most vills, measures of ‘lengths’ and ‘widths’, expressed in leagues and furlongs. If multiplied together, these give areas smaller than the nineteenth-century parishes and amount to only about one-third of each hundred. The only plausible interpretation is that the linear measures are estimates of the extent of a vill's arable land, and might be numerically related to its...